Hardware Build Suggestions?

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My HP Home Media Server died and I have been looking for a replacement solution. I was going to go with a Synology unit, but stumbled upon XPEnology. My environment is all OSX and a PS3. I used to build computers in m teens and college, but haven't done so in at least a dozen years. I went with the HP EX475 because it was an easy no set up solution and drive extender was great.

Anyhow, I am a bit of touch in building PCs. What should I be looking for? I want quite, low power, cheap, small form factor.

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I would go with these either board for only 35 bucks each, 1 includes Celeron CPU and USB3 but only 2 SATA, other has 4 SATA with LGA 1155 (support i3, i5, i7...) but not include CPU; however, the good thing is they both include PCIe x16 instead x1

the problem with that is its has a Proprietary PSU and I believe the OP suffered that problem. I almost bought a n54 for $130 for blackfriday but i said fuck that... Luckily I run my hardware through a UPS. knock on wood ive never had any issues with the PSU. But building your own would be the best option as manfriday put it. but at the same time not to build a sledgehammer to swat a fly. lol some people building i7s cmon now! an i3 or a quad core is perfect enough.

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the problem with that is its has a Proprietary PSU and I believe the OP suffered that problem. I almost bought a n54 for $130 for blackfriday but i said fuck that... Luckily I run my hardware through a UPS. knock on wood ive never had any issues with the PSU. But building your own would be the best option as manfriday put it. but at the same time not to build a sledgehammer to swat a fly. lol some people building i7s cmon now! an i3 or a quad core is perfect enough.

Microservers do not have Proprietary PSU's

They use FlexATX PSU's and can be obtained cheaply on ebay any size wattage up to 350w are cheap and can be had in many different configurations

eg power plugs in .....all molex, all SATA, or combinations of the two. etc